HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080330680
Bassin de Knife River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Cook, Lake, Rainy River, Thunder Bay
Sub-basin area
397,9km²
Upstream area
2 721km²
Discharge
25,1m³/s
Mean elev.
458m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sea Gull Creek429 km²
- Bassin · #708032656055 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 212.6 km²53.3% of basin
- Lake169.4 km²42.5% of basin
- Cook15.4 km²3.9% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Provincial Park
212.69 km² overlap
Boundary Waters Canoe Area
IUCN IbWilderness
184.69 km² overlap
Provincial Park
1.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
650 distinct species · 3 935 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Knife River : 39 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
2,7°C
Annual rain
708mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
347mm/an
PET
772mm
AET
588mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
72cm
Forest
74%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)